Very interesting. Some of those (GA SC) are disheartening.
We should have 4 here in IL. We won the rat-leaning southern IL seat but just prior to that lost a Republican seat. 3 are cook county guaranteed rat.
In the case of Georgia, since no Republican won the Governorship for over 130 years, we were shut out there until 2003 (and we didn’t gain complete control of the legislature until 2005).
South Carolina’s is simply bizarre. The newest appointee, Donald Beatty, (in 2007) is a former Black Democrat legislator. At this point, diversity on the bench would be appointing 1 single friggin’ Republican ! What makes no sense is that the legislature elects the members and we’ve had a GOP House since 1995 and Senate since 2001 and therefore given that the Justices are reelected every 10 years, the entire court should be Republican now. As for the ideology of the justices, I’m not sure. Beatty, I believe, is a moderate, but I can’t say beyond that.